Good Commodore 64 Games

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How I wish Creatures 1 & 2 would come to VC. The continual dismembering of cute creatures means that's unlikely to happen though.

Could I also just post a few details about why Paradroid is still my favourite game ever. It is a game of the utmost simplicity that manages to have endless depth and requires the utmost skill and strategy. You are a robot. You can take over other robots and acquire their abilities (in a fantastic competitive capture puzzle game). You can shoot other robots. Use these two tactics to clear the robots from a fleet of spaceships.

The strategy comes in how you decide to go about the job. Try and shoot powerful robots and you'll come a cropper. Try to take over robots too high above you in strength and you'll come a cropper.

So you shoot some lowly robots, take over a few lowly robots and work your way up the droid classes. But now you're stuck with a robot that's slow and needs loads of energy to keep running. Suddenly you're out of energy and back to square one, except now you've got rid of all the low class robots and have to try to take over one of the more powerful robots. It's all about hopping up and down the classes to take out the high powered droids without denying yourself the safety net of the low class droids. It is entirely nonlinear and has to be played in an entirely nonlinear way. Still the most intelligent game ever made.

I'd say it should be remade, but some crap developer would turn it into an epic FPS with a ridiculous story and entirely spoil everything that was great about the game.

Also, for classic C64 music, buy the Input 64 album. It's brilliant.